Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

I came across this learning object via Tom Smith’s blog. It reminded me of a previous life when we used to get kids to think about what indicators best illustrated the relative changes in a countries quality of life and standard of living over a period of time. Then, with the trusty school [...]

Re-conceptualizing “contact” education: a case of mobile learning at the University of Cape Town
Dick talked in general about his work and HE education in South Africa. He works for the Centre for Educational Technology which has a remit to:
- ensure all students have fair access
- address educational social inclusion
- enable all to participate in [...]

A neat application that for me will work as a replacement for the feature on Internet Explorer (no longer supported and getting very flaky with newer OSX operating systems) that allowed the downloading of whole websites rather than just individual pages.
A good way to retain a local copy of externally hosted services such as blogs [...]

Tom Smith put me onto xFruits, a web 2.0 service that for him is a “tool to help me ‚ÄòCompose my information system‚Äô”. After a few struggles I worked out that you need to be logged out when you try to view the xFruit you have created, if not you just get to see [...]